Das vorliegende Handbuch soll einen Überblick über die Befragungen des ifo Instituts
sowie die daraus resultierenden Konjunkturindikatoren und deren Verwendung für die …

Abstract The ifo Institute is Germany's largest business survey provider, with the ifo Business
Climate Germany as one of the most important leading indicators for gross domestic product …

As one of the main pillars of the ifo Institute's economic research, the ifo Business Survey
has been conducted monthly since 1949, a year after the foundation of the ifo Institute. Since …

Economic forecasts are an important element of rational economic policy both on the federal
and on the local or regional level. Solid budgetary plans for government expenditures and …

We construct a real-time dataset (FRED-SD) with vintage data for the US states that can be
used to forecast both state-level and national-level variables. Our dataset includes …

We tackle the nowcasting problem at the regional level, using a large set of indicators
(regional, national and international) for the years 1998 to 2013. We explicitly take into …

The monitoring of the regional (provincial) economic situation is of particular importance due
to the high level of heterogeneity and interdependences among different territories. Although …

This paper applies component-wise boosting to the topic of regional economic forecasting.
Component-wise boosting is a pre-selection algorithm of indicators for forecasting. By using …

This paper shifts studies on macroeconomic models from a national to a regional scope.
Regions, indeed, often follow growth trajectories that dif-fer greatly from others within the …

Accurate real-time macroeconomic data are essential for policy-making and economic
nowcasting. The rising interest in analyses at the sub-national level cannot be served as …